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That was a little stuttering.
A little bit.
And we have our voice messages again.
Yes.
We love them. Thank you.
This time it's from Morandi-san.
Wow.
Italian guy maybe?
Which one?
It's the Italian guy probably.
It must be.
Hi guys. This is Morandi and sorry for not telling you my screen name last time.
Today I am sending you a voice message in English so that my friends wouldn't have any idea of who I am.
Please kindly bear with my poor English.
Okay then.
What I'd like you to talk about today is if you guys have any experience like overcoming anything you didn't like or you were not good at.
Actually I feel insecure about my voice and always long for a cool voice.
For me this voice message is actually something of a challenge and I'm still embarrassed.
Once again I would appreciate it if you share your experience.
For last thing, by the way I'd love to recommend you a nice coffee shop in Jinbocho called Otonari Coffee which has great barista.
I bet you will like it.
Yabachansan and Kevin-san you can also enjoy really tasty cheesecake there.
Thank you again for listening to my voice message. Bye bye.
Bye bye.
Morandi-san was a student of my English Aikaiwa and he does drink coffee.
And that was called, what was it, in Jinbocho?
Otonari Coffee.
I took a memo so that I, on a list, it's on the list.
You have a list of the places in it.
Yeah.
Okay.
I like his voice.
Yeah.
He just has a feeling insecure about the voice.
Cool.
Yeah.
I liked it.
Calm.
Calm. Yeah he's very calm.
Yeah.
The overcoming, what was it, if there's anything that we've overcome.
What's the question? Right?
Was it how or do you remember?
We'll do it again.
Let me listen to it again.
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Hi guys, this is Morandi.
Please kindly bear with my poor experience.
Like overcoming a day is, if you guys have any experience like overcoming anything you didn't like.
Anything you didn't like.
Not good at.
I feel insecure about my voice.
Right, right, right.
I always have a cool voice.
Got it, got it, got it, got it, got it.
Overcoming anything that you didn't like or you're not good at.
Okay.
What do you mean overcoming?
Overcoming is being okay with it.
Okay.
Like accepting yourself for who you are.
That's overcoming.
Okay.
Like the mental state, mental like level up.
Okay.
Of like being okay with what you're insecure about.
Okay.
So it's basically accepting.
Accepting.
Exactly.
Not like beating and getting bitter.
That's a solution, right?
Okay.
If you over, you can overcome your insecurities by getting better, by getting stronger or like working on it or like.
Okay.
Right.
Okay.
It could be a change of the mindset or it could be the fix of the problem.
Okay.
Either one's okay.
All right.
Okay.
First thing that came up in my mind.
Yeah.
I don't know.
My hair.
You're right.
You're very wavy hair.
It's been like really wavy hair and I didn't like it then when I was like junior high student.
Yeah.
I wanted to have like Sara Sara, you know, like big gum hair or you know, I was a football guy.
Right.
But now I don't actually care.
And you know, even like try to make it more curly curly, you know, sometimes.
Right.
So that's what I overcome.
Overcame.
Overcame.
Right.
Overcome.
That's what I overcame.
Fuck, I don't know.
That's what I've overcome.
No, I think it's that's what I've overcome.
Okay.
Wait.
That's what I overcame.
That's what I ate.
That's what I did.
That's what I.
That's what I.
This is how you remember things.
That's what I broke.
That's what I.
That's what I made.
So.
Okay.
From that pattern.
Yeah.
That's what I.
Over.
What?
Overcome.
What I've overcame.
Wait, I don't know.
Wow.
I don't know.
I'm sorry.
But I don't know.
Maybe that's because overcome is still I kind of, you know, it's not like single past action,
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you know.
Because now I'm over being over.
Whichever.
Yeah, whatever.
Whatever.
Okay.
Yeah.
Enough with the grammar.
Yeah.
I was gonna go with overcome.
Yeah.
Whatever.
Okay.
Yeah.
Right.
That's what you've overcome.
Yeah.
Is that right as an answer?
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Now, because back then you were worrying about it.
Yeah.
But now you're not.
Yeah.
You've overcome it.
Okay.
Overcame it.
I don't know which one.
Okay.
For me.
Yeah.
I know one.
It's called shitto.
Oh, yeah.
With girlfriend.
Japanese word.
Yeah.
Japanese word.
Like, I thought you meant English.
Jealousy, envy.
Yeah.
I don't know what it is with like, I don't know if there's a specific on spot perfect
translation of shitto in one word.
Well, jealousy.
Jealousy, envy.
Envy, jealousy.
Yeah.
Jealousy.
Yeah, right.
Um, my, um, I used to.
Mm.
Jealousy, but not anymore.
It was eating me up.
And I changed my mindset and it's gone.
Okay.
So I don't have that anymore.
And I don't really, no, I don't have that anymore.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's just gone.
It's gone.
Okay.
It's gone.
Do you have any tips?
Um.
No, it's just naturally gone or?
Okay, if, um, you can't, if.
I feel like shitto comes because you're afraid of losing the other person.
Right.
And the solution I came up with was, um, you can't do anything if the other person wants
to leave you.
Okay.
And that if the other person wants to leave you and that's what's good for the relationship.
Yeah.
And you should let it happen.
So and you should, your, your, your best option is to move on.
Okay.
So if it didn't work out, it doesn't work out.
Stop.
True.
Stop being so clingy with your, with what's, what can't be done.
So forget it.
Yeah.
Right.
See mindset change.
Yeah.
That's, that's how I think.
Right.
Yeah.
And you know, now, I mean, no, back then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Back then I was like, Oh, I don't want to feel like this.
What I do.
And also the timing that you changed your mindset must be tough.
No.
Right.
After I was after.
So that relationship didn't work out when I actually told a lot, then I, I dated the
next day to someone else.
And then I started feeling similar and I was like, okay, this isn't that, this is like
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a never ending cycle for me if this happens.
So I have to change something.
So I changed my mindset and then there you go.
Okay.
That's how it happened.
So yeah.
Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah.
It's a mental, mental, what?
Seicho.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I guess.
Yeah.
That's important.
Pain and gain the same.
Oh yeah, I like that.
Yeah.
No pain, no gain.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Um, another thing was, um, uh, overcoming how other people look at me because I was
in the corporate ladder.
Yeah.
Right.
Uh, Shin-Sotsu.
Right.
Um, if I stayed there, I could have climbed the corporate ladder, but, uh, decided to
change.
Right.
And, um, I would be lying if I said that I had, I didn't care about what other people
think there was, but, and I had to overcome that, that, um, struggle, the fear of judgment
by others.
I over-combed it and I overcame it.
And I made it through.
I made a decision for myself after that.
And then there, here I am.
So yeah.
Cool.
Another thing I have come.
Nice, nice, nice.
Nice.
Right.
But we all have so many things that we, we had over-come.
Game, come, come, come.
Through our life.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Right.
Sure.
But I feel like if you can say this, like say that experience to, to a public like he
did, you kind of already, you know, start to overcoming.
Right.
The fact that you know that it's an insecurity of yours is already a big step forward.
You know, the fact that you're acknowledging it, you're already on your way to solving it
because you know what the problem is.
Yeah.
And you seeing from a distance.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
All right.
Thank you, Moroni-san.
Thank you.
It's been a while since I heard your voice.
I'm, I'm glad that you, you, you seem healthy and all good.
Thank you for the voice message.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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